310 MUSCICAPID^. 



another behind the eye, running above the ear-coverts ; chin and 

 cheeks white ; across the throat a dusky grej-ish band, extending 

 upon the sides of the neck ; rest of under surface of body light ochra- 

 ceous buff, the feathers of the upper breast edged with grey ; thighs 

 brown ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts like the breast, 

 the greater series tipped with wliite, all with dusky bases ; quills 

 brown below, whity brown along the inner webs. Total length 

 5'3 iuches, culmen "0-35, wing 2-6, tail 3-1, tarsus 0-6o. 

 Hah. New Caledonia. 



«, h. (S 9. ad. sk. Port de France, New Cale- Julius Brenchlev, 



donia, Oct. 1865. Esq. [P.]. 



3. RMpidura albiscapa*. 



Rhipidura flabellifera {nee Gm.), Vig. >§• Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. 

 p. 247 ; Swains. Monogr. Flyc. p. 124, pi. 10. 



^...w.w.„. .^^.^ t.. , - p , 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 330, no. 4955; Biggies, Orn. Austr. pi. 36. 

 fig. 2 ; Ramsag, Pr. Linn. Soc. X. S. W. ii. p. 182. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy brown, head with a slightly 

 blacker shade ; lores and sides of face blackish brown ; over the eye 

 a broad line of white ; a second short line of white above the ear- 

 coverts, not continuous with the above-mentioned one ; least wing- 

 coverts ashy brown, like the back ; greater and median coverts dark 

 brown, tipped with white ; primary-coverts and primaries brown, 

 the inner secondaries edged with white ; upper tail-coverts and tail 

 brown, with a slight ashy shade, the two centre tail-feathers with 

 brown shafts, the rest with conspicuous white shafts, the ends of 

 the feathers white, extending up the inner webs and along the outer 

 web of the outermost feather ; cheeks and throat white ; lower 

 throat black ; rest of under surface light ochraceous buff, the 

 sides of the breast ashy grey, like the sides of the neck ; under 

 tail-coverts white, the longer ones brown with white tips ; thighs 

 brown ; under wing-coverts whitish, slightly washed with ochra- 

 ceous, with brown bases ; axillaries brown, edged with ochraceous ; 

 " biU and feet brownish black ; iris black " (J. Gould). Total length 

 6 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-75, tail 3-4, tarsus 0*7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 5-8 inches, wing 

 2-8, tail 3-4, tarsus 0-6. 



Hab. East and South Australia. 



* Rhipidura preissi. 



Ehipidura preissi, Cah. Mus. Hcin. Th. i. p. 57 ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. 

 i p. 240; Crray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 331, no. 4972; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S. W. ii. p. 182. 

 Hab. Western Australia. 



This species is described as being allied to i?. albiscapa, but differing princi- 

 pally in the absence of the black breast-band. This is one of the chief characters 

 of R. pehebti, and it will be interesting to compare the two species. 



